This woman has spent over $20,000 on all her tattoos and even went blind after tattooing both of her eyes. She now shares photos to show the difference between what she looks like before and how it changed throughout time.
24-year old Amber Luke from New South Wales, Australia was asked by one of her 87,000 Instagram followers to share a photo before she got 100 tattoos and piercings.
The Instagram star, who called herself the Blue Eyed White Dragon, shared an old photo of when she had blonde hair and no visible body art. In the photo, a fresh-faced Amber is wearing an aqua blue prom dress as she hugs her mother.
In 2020, Amber has gained fame for her blue hair and intricate body art. Her tattoos cover every inch of her body. She has had several procedures done, including a boob job, cheek and lip fillers as well as pointed ear implants.
Amber underwent a 40-minute procedure last year to transform her eyes. She got 200 tattoos on her body, had her tongue split and earlobes stretched. The procedure was excruciating and dangerous. Amber described the eyeball job as being the most dangerous procedure she has done to date.
Amber said: “I can’t even begin to describe to you what the feeling was like, the best thing I can give you is once the eyeball was penetrated with the ink, it felt like [the tattoo artist] grabbed 10 shards of glass and rubbed it in my eye. That happened four times per eye, that was pretty brutal. Unfortunately, my artist went too deep into my eyeball. If your eyeball procedure’s done correctly, you’re not supposed to go blind at all. I was blind for three weeks. That was pretty brutal.
Amber has expressed interest in getting tattoos all over her body and will complete this goal by 2020, but she doesn’t plan to get any more extreme modifications done.
She added: “I don’t plan on getting any more body modifications that are extreme in that manner. So no more tongue splitting, no more eyeball tattooing.”
Vikki, Amber’s mother, broke down in tears when she learned that her daughter got the blue ink tattooed on her eyeballs. She “’Where do I start? I cried. I said a few choice words as anyone would. Why would you do that to yourself, knowing that there is a danger to it? As we know as parents, some kids will just do what they want to do, regardless of what we say. But I brought her into the world with the best skills that I could give, the best that I could give her it’s just for me to be there and go along the journey with her. And prop her up, and love her. She never saw herself as being beautiful. She didn’t see herself through my eyes. But I’ve supported her because I could actually see the transition, the growth, and how it’s made her come to who she is today. I think over time, I’ve learned to actually understand that it doesn’t change you. It’s the society’s perception of it.”
The ‘blue-eyed dragon’, as she calls herself, traveled all the way to America in order to add an extra horrifying element by getting a set of specially made fangs specifically designed for inside her mouth. Her sharp teeth are not just for aesthetics – she admits that they’re strong enough to pierce through skin and finds this incredibly pleasurable.
When Amber was 14, she started having issues with her body after being diagnosed with depression.
She said: “I didn’t know who I was or what I wanted from life, but now I have the confidence to look however I want to. And I don’t worry what I’m going to look like when I’m older.”
Amber takes a lot of heat from strangers on the internet who tell her she’s disgusting and shouldn’t be doing what she does, but Amber isn’t going to let those opinions stop her by saying: “I’m not harming anyone, I’m doing what I want to do and if it makes me get up in the morning and be a happy person, then so be it.”
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